1. Cocoon is a two-piece… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least six bands called Cocoon:
1. Cocoon is a two-piece French band formed in 2006 by Mark Daumail (born 1984, composition, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, ukelele, banjo, beatbox, etc.) and Morgane Imbeaud (born 1987, vocal harmonies, keyboards, arrangements).
"I wanted it to be a male-female duet. A duo like the White Stripes are in rock — we wanted to be the equivalent in folk music," Daumail says. Their songs are entirely sung in English. "French artists singing in English isn't something new. It goes back to groups like Les Thugs and Syd Matters," he remarks.
Daumail says he's always been interested in folk music: "Basically, Cocoon's musical inspiration goes all the way from groups like The Pentangle and Fairport Convention right through to the 'new folk' movement that surfaced around the beginning of 2000 with artists like CocoRosie, Devendra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens."
In 2006, the pop / folk duet released its first EP, entitled I Hate Birds, and won the 2006 edition of the Big Jama regional contest. The following year, Cocoon was signed onto the French indie label Sober & Gentle. The band released a second EP, From Panda Mountains, followed by their first album, entitled My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash. The group won the CQFD music contest organized by the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles and performed in the new talent section of the rock music festivals Le Printemps de Bourges and Les Eurockéennes de Belfort.
Official site: http://www.myspace.com/listentococoon or http://www.frompandamountains.com/
2. Cocoon is a solo project by one of the founding members of the French group Clair Obscur which was one of the first groups in the 80's in France to work across music, visual arts, dance and theatre. Clair Obscur was one of the very few bands of the French cold wave/industrial scene which became known abroad with its records released by the British labels Cathexis, All the Madmen and NER (compilation From Torture to Conscience with Current 93, In the Nursery, Death in June, etc).
Christophe Demarthe has been working for many years at the frontier of sound and visual arts. He has created sound architectures for theatre, dance, cinema, visual arts, radio... mainly working with the drama producer Bruno Lajara (501 Blues, Ne Pas, Fuites, Après Coups, Léon le Nul...) and with Jean Couturier for radio dramas on France Culture. He has written music for the cinema and for television (France 2, Canal Plus).
In 2004 he created Cocoon, releasing his debut album on the French label Optical Sound. Much more than a mere sound object based on an album concept, Cocoon can be read as a global artistic project close to the performance. It is an audio set accompanied by videos and asking for an active participation of the public, banishing the passive listening of laptoppers. The stage disposition creates a real contrast with the characteristic immobility of electronic music concerts, and definitively places itself at the crossing point of image, sound and live show, for a moving interdisciplinarity.
Since its creation in 2004, Cocoon has participated in the festivals Nowa Fabryka (Bytom, Poland), Emergences/Villette Numérique (Paris), Nuit Blanche (Paris), Emo-Son (Bourges), Salon Light (Paris)... He has been reviewed in Libération, on Arte-TV.com, in the magazines Mouvement, Télérama, The Wire, on France Culture... His second album, More Violent Days Are to Come (OS.012) (Optical Sound), has been nominated for the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 2006/2007.
3. A Czech band from Kolín.
4. An Alternative/Emocore - Band from Czech republic.
5. An electronic/ambient duo from the USA.
6. A Romanian rapper from Piatra Neamt
Seesaw
Cocoon Lyrics
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I used to be a son of a bitch
But my mother’s quit working
She said she couldn’t get a lover
But mum they won’t love you more ‘cause now you make it for free
She went home and never let me come in
There was a spider in the basement
There I learnt to see what I just wanna see
And in the middle of the night
I join my hands, no matter why
And in the middle of the night
You may see me giving birth
My babies were all born dead
‘Cause I have made them all alone
But I have given each one a grave
Behind a seesaw, in front of a cherry tree
And in the middle of the night
I join my hands, no matter why
And in the middle of the night
You may see me giving birth
The song Seesaw by Cocoon is a melancholic and introspective track that explores themes of loneliness, isolation, and desperation. The opening lines of the song, “I used to be a son of a bitch, but my mother’s quit working,” reveal the singer's troubled past and the impact his mother's absence has had on him. The lyrics suggest that his mother might have gone into prostitution to make a living, and this has left the singer with feelings of shame, guilt, and abandonment.
The song further goes on to describe the singer's experiences of living alone in a basement, where he seeks refuge from the cold winter outside. The image of the spider in the basement becomes a symbol of his isolation and confinement. He learns to see only what he wants to see, a coping mechanism to deal with the harsh realities of his life. The chorus of the song, "And in the middle of the night, I join my hands, no matter why, and in the middle of the night, you may see me giving birth," is a haunting refrain that suggests both a spiritual connection and a sense of hopelessness.
The final verse of the song describes the singer's failed attempts at creating new life, with all his babies being born dead. He has given each of them a grave, behind a seesaw, in front of a cherry tree. The image of the seesaw, associated with childhood memories and innocence, juxtaposed with the somber undertones of the song, adds to the sense of loneliness and melancholy that permeates throughout. Overall, Seesaw is a powerful and thought-provoking song that delves deep into the human psyche and emotions.
Line by Line Meaning
I used to be a son of a bitch
I used to have a bad attitude
But my mother’s quit working
But my mother has stopped being alive
She said she couldn’t get a lover
She said that she cannot find someone to have a romantic relationship with
But mum they won’t love you more ‘cause now you make it for free
But, mom, people won't love you more just because you're giving it away for free
She went home and never let me come in
She went home and never let me enter her home
The winter is longer outside
The outside in winter feels longer and harsher
There was a spider in the basement
In the basement, there was a spider
There I learnt to see what I just wanna see
In the basement, I learned to only see what I wanted to see
And in the middle of the night
During the nighttime
I join my hands, no matter why
I fold my hands together, despite not knowing why
And in the middle of the night
During the nighttime
You may see me giving birth
You might witness me going through childbirth even though I am not pregnant
My babies were all born dead
My imaginary babies were all stillborn
‘Cause I have made them all alone
Because I created them all by myself
But I have given each one a grave
But I have provided each of them with a burial spot
Behind a seesaw, in front of a cherry tree
Their graves are located behind a seesaw and in front of a cherry tree
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SOPHIANE PRODUCTIONS, BMG Rights Management
Written by: MARC DAUMAIL, MORGANE IMBEAUD
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